> am on a WRT54GS. > > I tried: > iw dev wlan0 set bitrates legacy-2.4 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
are you in adhoc or ap-mode? > Should I be making the equivalent "iw set bitrates" on the client > machine as well (I have a laptop connected to the router)? yes, ofcourse. otherwise it doesnt make sense, because it seems that the situation will come up, when mudulation changes (fast) between OFDM and non-OFDM. (e.g. 11 vs. 12mbit or 5.5 vs. 6 mbit) > If so that may not be practical since not all of my client > machines > are on linux (my wife's windows laptop, and my tivo doesn't expose > advanced wireless config). but you can hardware them to 802.11g IMHO > Also, you mention putting "wifi up" in a cron script. Does doing > that > sever already extablished connections? So if I did this in the > middle > of a large file copy, would it break the connection? no, it will just continue, you can take this for a start: http://intercity-vpn.de/files/openwrt/cron.minutely_checkwifi.sh > I wonder if a temporary solution might be to hack the b43 driver > such > that it would refuse to change from g to b speeds regardless of > client > settings. I'm no kernel dev, but it might be worth toying with. yes, that would be a "solution" but i think thats not (easy) possible: the decoding is done in hardware IMHO, but maybe its enough to say in the beacons "i can only speak x.y" > One more question: What build of openwrt are you using? I am on > Backfire 10.03.1, r29592. Perhaps I should be trying this trick on > a > development snapshot instead. yes, we are using recent trunk, e.g. r32764 or newer. bye, bastian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
